"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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Arny Krueger wrote:
However, Ampex audio recorders were never popular in the
UK - and I'd guess the same applied to EMI in the US.

IME the only EU tape recorder brand to get any serious market
penetration in US was Studer/Revox. The Revox machines were relatively
light duty boxes by the standards we're talking, which is not to say
that they lacked durability as they were typically used.

Studer pretty well took over the pro market here too - as others dropped
out.

It had a lot to do with reliability. Only major studios
had a service dept, and spare multitrack machines,
so the smaller studios needed a machine that would
work round the clock, seven days a week, with a bare
minimum of down-time.The Studer range were designed
to do this. A small studio could buy an A80 on credit,
and know that it would still be running for years after it
had paid for itself.

They have kept the same high level of reliabilty with their
consoles to this day.


Iain